Test Bank for Health Assessment in
Nursing 7th Edition Questions and
Answers 2026/2027 Sure Pass
# Term Definition
1 Sequence of joint exam: temporomandibular shoulder
elbow wrist and hand spine hip
knee and lower leg ankle and
foot
2 Parts of joint inspection, palpation, range of
assessment: motion, maneuvers to test
function and stability
3 articular structures joint capsule, articular cartilage,
include synovium and synovial fluid,
intra-art. ligaments, juxta-art.
bone
4 articular disease the entire joint, active and passive
typically involves ROM
swelling and
tenderness of
and limits both
and
.
5 Extra-articular periarticular ligaments, tendons,
structures include: bursae, muscle, fascia, bone,
nerve, and overlying skin
6 Extra-articular disease selected regions of joint and
involves: types of movement.
1
,7 Ligaments connect bone to bone
8 tendons connect muscl to bone
9 bursae are pouches of synovial fluid, cushion
that
the movement of
tendons and muscles
over bone or other
joint structures
10 3 types of joint 1\. synovial- freely movable (knee
articulation and their and shoulder) 2\. cartilaginous -
function: slightly movable (vertebral
bodies) 3\. fibrous- immovable
(skull sutures)
11 In cartilaginous fibrocartilaginous discs, nucleus
joints, pulposus
separate the bony
surfaces, and at the
center of each is the
that serves as
cushion/shock
absorber between
bony surfaces.
2
,HEALTH ASSESSMENT
# Term Definition
12 In this type of joint the fibrous
bones touch:
13 3 types of synovial 1\. spheroidal (ball and socket)-
joints and their stats: convex surface in concave
cavity, wide ranging flexion,
extension, abduction,
adduction, rotation,
circumduction (shoulder and
hip) 2\. hinge- flat and planar,
motion in one plane, flexion and
extension (elbow, interphalangeal
joints of hand and foot) 3\.
condylar- convex or concave,
movement of 2 articulating
surfaces not dissociable, (knee,
temporomandibular)
14 Describe idiopathic without a precise underlying cause
low back pain:
15 If low back pain is musculoligamentous injury, disc
midline, consider: herniation, vertebral collapse,
spinal cord metastases,
epidural abscess
16 if low back pain is sacroiliitis, trochaneteric bursitis,
not midline, sciatica, hip arthritis
consider:
17 Leg pain that reslves spinal stenosis
with rest and lumbar
forward flexion
suggests
18 If pt has numbness sciatica
and parasthesia
radiation to leg in S1
3
, HEALTH ASSESSMENT
distribution that
increases w cough
and valsalva,
consider:
19 Low back pain with cauda equina syndrome associated
associated w urinary retention and overflow
bowel/bladder incont.
dysfunction suggests
20 In neck pain, the C7, C6 foraminal impingement
most likely location from degeneraive joint changes
is to ,
usually from .
21 Polyarticular joint pain rheumatic fever, gonococcal
that spreads in a arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis
migratory pattern is
seen in or
, and if spread
is bilateral and
symmetric this
suggests
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Nursing 7th Edition Questions and
Answers 2026/2027 Sure Pass
# Term Definition
1 Sequence of joint exam: temporomandibular shoulder
elbow wrist and hand spine hip
knee and lower leg ankle and
foot
2 Parts of joint inspection, palpation, range of
assessment: motion, maneuvers to test
function and stability
3 articular structures joint capsule, articular cartilage,
include synovium and synovial fluid,
intra-art. ligaments, juxta-art.
bone
4 articular disease the entire joint, active and passive
typically involves ROM
swelling and
tenderness of
and limits both
and
.
5 Extra-articular periarticular ligaments, tendons,
structures include: bursae, muscle, fascia, bone,
nerve, and overlying skin
6 Extra-articular disease selected regions of joint and
involves: types of movement.
1
,7 Ligaments connect bone to bone
8 tendons connect muscl to bone
9 bursae are pouches of synovial fluid, cushion
that
the movement of
tendons and muscles
over bone or other
joint structures
10 3 types of joint 1\. synovial- freely movable (knee
articulation and their and shoulder) 2\. cartilaginous -
function: slightly movable (vertebral
bodies) 3\. fibrous- immovable
(skull sutures)
11 In cartilaginous fibrocartilaginous discs, nucleus
joints, pulposus
separate the bony
surfaces, and at the
center of each is the
that serves as
cushion/shock
absorber between
bony surfaces.
2
,HEALTH ASSESSMENT
# Term Definition
12 In this type of joint the fibrous
bones touch:
13 3 types of synovial 1\. spheroidal (ball and socket)-
joints and their stats: convex surface in concave
cavity, wide ranging flexion,
extension, abduction,
adduction, rotation,
circumduction (shoulder and
hip) 2\. hinge- flat and planar,
motion in one plane, flexion and
extension (elbow, interphalangeal
joints of hand and foot) 3\.
condylar- convex or concave,
movement of 2 articulating
surfaces not dissociable, (knee,
temporomandibular)
14 Describe idiopathic without a precise underlying cause
low back pain:
15 If low back pain is musculoligamentous injury, disc
midline, consider: herniation, vertebral collapse,
spinal cord metastases,
epidural abscess
16 if low back pain is sacroiliitis, trochaneteric bursitis,
not midline, sciatica, hip arthritis
consider:
17 Leg pain that reslves spinal stenosis
with rest and lumbar
forward flexion
suggests
18 If pt has numbness sciatica
and parasthesia
radiation to leg in S1
3
, HEALTH ASSESSMENT
distribution that
increases w cough
and valsalva,
consider:
19 Low back pain with cauda equina syndrome associated
associated w urinary retention and overflow
bowel/bladder incont.
dysfunction suggests
20 In neck pain, the C7, C6 foraminal impingement
most likely location from degeneraive joint changes
is to ,
usually from .
21 Polyarticular joint pain rheumatic fever, gonococcal
that spreads in a arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis
migratory pattern is
seen in or
, and if spread
is bilateral and
symmetric this
suggests
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